An approach towards the protection for printed documents bymeans of latent elements with fractal grids and electronic determination of its authenticity

Abstract

An electronic method of protection for printed documents based on which latent elements are formed in a printed way has been developed. The development of security features has been done electronically. Protection using latent elements has been improved by overlapping fractal grids, which allows creation of graphics traps. The printing of designed security elements has been investigated on 15 paper samples. The security elements were printed on an offset printing machine. Prints were copied and compared with originals using the electronic method of pixel-by-pixel comparison based on a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). The comparison results between originals and their copies are presented in this paper.